Hope to Families Dealing With Alzheimer's Offered in Parkway Grad's New Book
West County native Stefania Silvestri hopes her new book will help families dealing with Alzheimer's and dementia by sharing her own struggle as a caregiver.
Author and West County native Stefania Silvestri recently released a book she hopes will help families dealing with Alzheimer's and dementia. (For instant news updates follow Patch on Facebook and Twitter.) "Beside the Mountain: Finding Strength and Courage Through My Father’s Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease" is Silvestri's first hand account of watching her father succumb to the disease and its affect on her family. At age 14, her father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's when he was only 48. She, her sisters and their mother, became his caregivers. "I had no idea that this brain disease, that Alzheimer's Disease, could affect my dad. I had no idea that my dad would become become so childlike at the end," Silvestri tells Patch. "My mom …
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Carol Parsonage
4:19 pm on Monday, February 14, 2011
Family Partners is a wonderful organization!! I wish everyone had the opportunity to participate with them!! Lorraine is my Mom and loves going there! more ›